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The winners of the 4th competition for the best electrician within the CIS finished in Vitebsk. The team of the Glubokoye electric mains of the republican unitary enterprise Vitebskenergo won the first place. The Russia and Kazakhstan’s teams placed second and third. The competition lasted four days and gathered together professionals from Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

This year nine companies of Vitebsk oblast have certified their production facilities in line with ISO 9001 international standards, BelTA learnt from the economy department of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee. Among them – Marko Ltd, Polotsk Dairy, Orsha Meat-Packing Company, Ekomol, Orsha Cheese Making Plant, Podsvilje Plant of Foodstuffs, Vedren, Polotsk Wine Making Plant and Sitsy Co. from the Dokshitsy region. Till the end of the current year Obolsk Ceramics Factory should...

The Vitebsk oblast plans to establish long-term economic contacts with Saint Petersburg, BelTA learnt from Nikolai Fedorchuk, Senior Counsellor for Transboundary Cooperation and Trade for the Vitebsk Oblast Governor. A fair featuring products of Vitebsk oblast companies will be the first step towards cooperation. The fair is scheduled to take place in the Moskovsky district of Saint Petersburg on September 22-24. The fair will feature products of 25 companies of the Vitebsk oblast, including...

There are plans to implement three major projects to produce chip fuel in the Vitebsk oblast, chief engineer of the Vitebsk manufacturing forestry association Nikolai Privalov told BelTA. In his words, a workshop able to turn out 20,000 compact cubic metres of chip fuel per annum is being set up at the premises of the woodworking workshop of the Gorodok forestry enterprise. Initially the chip fuel will be shipped to boiler houses of the Gorodok region, with plans to supply chip fuel to the...

Alexey Zhigalkovich will present Belarus at the International Junior Eurovision Song Contest scheduled for December 8, 2007 in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Alexey’s song S Druzyami (With Friends) took 67 points and left far behind the second contender Nikita Zhurovich. Unanimously all the regions except Vitebsk oblast gave the young singer 12 points. The jury supported the winner, though, as jury chairman, People’s Artist of Belarus Vasily Rainchik confessed, “it was not a simple...

About 200 guests will come to Dokshitsy in the Vitebsk oblast to celebrate the town’s 600th anniversary marked on September 15, BelTA has been told in the town’s regional executive committee. The event will be opened by a big theatre performance about the town’s foundation, creation of the emblem and the milestones of Dokshitsy history. The performance of the Vitebsk aero-club will follow the celebrations. The brass band and creative groups of the town and neighbouring regions will...